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Street clean-up event in Apache Junction included rock painting

Apache Junction residents Steven Picket and Ingrid Abundiz volunteered to pick up litter at Community Action Day.

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(Independent Newsmedia, Richard H Dyer) From right, Apache Junction resident Carrie Schmitz and her son John cleaned litter on Baseline Road in Apache Junction for Community Action Day.

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Apache Junction residents Judy Ponio and Alicia Groneberg painted rocks as part of the Community Action Day volunteer effort.

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Cigarette butts, plastic fast-food cups and other litter strewn along Baseline Road in Apache Junction, just east of Ironwood, were recently scooped up by hand or with a trash-picker tool and bagged by volunteers to be deposited at the landfill as part of a nonprofit’s Community Action Day.

“So many cigarettes on the ground. So many,” Apache Junction resident John Schmitz said.

“We turned in a bag of garbage already,” his mother, Carrie Schmitz, said early during the 8 a.m.-noon Jan. 17 event.

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